Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Beyond Coincidence: Where Fate and Reality Converge

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 53

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🌟 Unlock the Magic of Synchronicity and the Power of Validation! 🌟

Ever experienced those magical moments when the universe seems to conspire in your favor? 🌠 Doors open effortlessly, stars align, and life feels serendipitous. Join us for an extraordinary conversation where we reveal the secrets to leverage this phenomenon. 🪄✨

We'll dive into our personal encounters, sharing captivating stories like our chance meeting with Tony Dovolani from Dancing with the Stars during a national dance competition. 🕺💫

Now, let's explore the essence of validation – a small cornerstone of  growth. How do we measure it? Is it always about external recognition, or could it be found within our own journey? Sometimes, it's the faith we hold in our path, and at other times, a trusted companion or mentor provides the validation we seek. 📈🔍

Discover with us the pivotal role of seeking and anticipating validation in our journey toward personal growth and success. Tune in to this episode and embrace the extraordinary magic of synchronicities along with the power of validation! 🌌🎙️

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🎧 Step into this conversation with us to explore how synchronicities pave the way to a life filled with abundance. Learn the art of validating your own journey and unravel the profound magic of synchronicity. ✨🔮 #SynchronicityRevealed #PowerOfValidation #UnlockAbundance #MiraclesAllAround #Believe #LivingLucky #JanaShelfer #JasonShelfer #Synchronicity #Validation #PersonalGrowth #Podcasting #Serendipity #MagicOfCoincidence #AbundantLiving #SelfValidation #ManifestingDestiny #PodcastInsights #MindfulJourney #InnerGuidance

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Believe in yourself
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Believe that God is working through you, for you, and always conspiring in your favor.

*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. I know that's right. Synchronous knees. I love them. I used to call these coincidences.

Speaker 2:

Happenstances.

Speaker 1:

Miracles or what the heck.

Speaker 2:

What the?

Speaker 1:

heck, oh my gosh, that's so weird. Can you believe that just happened?

Speaker 2:

I believe it.

Speaker 1:

Jason believes it. He even expects it.

Speaker 2:

I do expect it.

Speaker 1:

You even look for it, I do. You're like it's gonna happen. These things just happen.

Speaker 2:

Ever since our cruise. I actually just start expecting it, and I see them everywhere.

Speaker 1:

Jason sees miracles everywhere we go.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I don't take them for granted. Like, since you got me into gratitude and since our first miracle, like the first miracle that I witnessed, I have started just kind of seeing them everywhere and then leaning into gratitude and being grateful for everything. Gratitude is the ultimate, like receivership, receivership, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I agree with you on that. I believe it's saying thank you in advance and it opens me up to, and it's also saying I see the gifts that you have already given me, I see what I have and I appreciate it and I see the gifts that are on the way and coming and just showing up.

Speaker 2:

It's so weird. But when we had that thing happen this afternoon, you said, is that surprising you? And I was like no, it's kind of like expected them for me.

Speaker 1:

So what Jason's referring to is we have had a day of synchronicities.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it's living. Lucky is what it is.

Speaker 1:

And I truly believe, when you align your desires your and when I say desires I mean your inner most it's getting in touch with your soul.

Speaker 1:

It is getting in touch with your spirit self and what your spirit self really, truly wants. Now, on the surface we may say, oh, I want this, but it's finding out, well, why, why do you want that? Why, why do you want that? And so it's getting deep down and saying, okay, what are my true desires, what are my desires? And then you align those desires with your everyday decisions and how you're showing up in life, the actions and the choices and every little step that you're taking. So your everyday decisions, so you align your desires with your decisions. And then, if you can align that with your divine design, those three things your desires, decisions and divine design when you align those three things, I kid you not, the right people start coming into your little circle. The right opportunities start to just appear out of nowhere. And you know, you know that it is the work of a higher power, because it comes out of nowhere.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's almost like a mystical it's magic happening, it is magical, it is mystical, it's living, lucky it is awe-inspiring. Yeah, and it's fun.

Speaker 1:

Jason's like it's living lucky Dah.

Speaker 2:

It's fun.

Speaker 1:

He's got this little smirk on his face. You should see him right now.

Speaker 2:

I'm like a kid in a candy store. I feel like a kid on the shoulders of a giant walking through the world just picking out what I want.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so let's tell everybody just a couple of the things that happened to us today, so we can go back to a couple of podcasts to go where we talk about going through our dance experience.

Speaker 2:

Where we didn't want to, we were nervous about going into the dance experience but we leaned into it. We overcame the obstacle, we overcame the fear, we overcame some of those doubts and just the thought process of stepping into that and really just leaned into the experience.

Speaker 2:

Because we knew that it was fun. We knew that we loved the connection. We knew that we enjoyed this new communication style and the new rhythm of life that we were experiencing with each other. Right, and then that opened up more opportunities and we actually added the dance into a speaking engagement and put it in front of our speech. Right, the speech organizer said you have a million dollar speech in front of you Right Now.

Speaker 2:

When I asked her can we up our rates, she said no. But from that we now to. We just went to the national dance competition which is going on. We weren't competing, but we went for a dress rehearsal and coming down the hallway was this entourage of like four, four or five people. We were literally practicing in the hallway and it was a beautiful hallway. It was marble floors columns.

Speaker 1:

The reason we were practicing in the hallway is because there was no room at the end. There was no room on the practice floor and the carpet dance floor was too hard for a wheelchair to spin around on. Yeah, so we were like, let's just go Synchronicity. Yeah. So we were like, well, let's just go practice in the hallway.

Speaker 2:

But it was a again. It was a beautiful environment in the hallway and it was perfect. It was well lit by the sun. We were overlooking this beautiful pool at the Waldorf.

Speaker 1:

And it was very. I mean it was. There was not much traffic in this hallway, so it's not like we were.

Speaker 2:

You know we weren't impeding, you know, people coming to and fro, but then comes this entourage of like four or five people dressed to the nines walking down the hallway like John Travolta and Stayin' Alive, and it's the owner of the, the president, ceo of Fred Astaire National. Yeah, it's Tony Diavani from Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 1:

Yes, which I had just said. I mean in the same podcast that Jason's talking about. I had just said that people from dancing with it's Dovalani, I think. Okay so.

Speaker 2:

Tony Dovalani from Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 1:

Which last night we watched a movie and he was in this movie. We watched the movie with Richard Geer called Shall we Dance? It's Richard.

Speaker 2:

Geer and.

Speaker 1:

Jennifer Lopez about ballroom dancing and he was in this movie. And so here he comes, walking down the hallway and he stops to introduce himself to us.

Speaker 2:

The first thing he says is there they are, and I was like. I was like. I was like who is he talking? Like we're the ones in the hallway. Who's he talking about? There, they are the people, the couple we've been hearing so much about.

Speaker 1:

So we've been talking about. I'm like you've been talking about us, oh my gosh, For weeks. I just watched you in a movie last night. Oh, this is so weird.

Speaker 2:

So the president, ceo of Fred Astaire National, tony Dovalani, and Stephen, the premier dance instructor of the area, yes, have all been talking about us behind closed doors because of what we've been doing in the area and around Florida.

Speaker 1:

And it just felt like such a synchronicity that we happen to run into all of them at one time we were dancing in the hallway. And then they said can you give us a private practice?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, the CEO and president of the practice.

Speaker 1:

And so, jason and I were doing a oh, that was so nerve wracking. I was like, oh my gosh, ok. So then, OK, so I mean to you guys you might go, ok, that might be a little bit of a coincidence, all right. Well then we get in the car and I say to Jason, how did that make you feel with? And we're talking about the situation and I'm like I just need one word of how you felt today in this specific situation and he gives me the word Validated.

Speaker 2:

I felt validated, it might sound conceited but in my mind I know all the work that we're putting in behind the scenes and sometimes when you put in a lot of work behind the scenes and you're not getting a lot of traction in the world, yes, Getting the validation from the president of a very large organization, a person that you've just watched on a movie and you've seen on Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 1:

Who's an?

Speaker 2:

expert in ballroom dancing For 20 something, I think, 22 or 23 seasons, uh-huh. Yes, I want to say and I could be very off on the number of seasons.

Speaker 1:

No, he's one of the most well known dancing with the stars experts yeah.

Speaker 2:

And so I did feel validated. And I am not a dancer. Ok, that's one of the first things I want to say, but the word was validated.

Speaker 1:

So here is the inside synchronicity between the two of us. As soon as he said that word, I almost dropped in my tracks I don't even know if that's the phrase I'm looking for, but I said she almost pooped her pants. I was like, oh my gosh, what did you just say?

Speaker 2:

Because I thought I said something wrong.

Speaker 1:

I am in this new class. I'm always taking classes. If you know anything about me, I am always up leveling my Self-improvement is a never ending journey.

Speaker 1:

I know and I just enrolled in this financial master class that I'm in, and in it is Paul McKenna and he is a hypnotherapist and he talks about limiting beliefs when it comes to financial freedom. And so I am doing this whole master study in finances and limiting beliefs when it comes to your financial well-being, and in it is this exercise. And so yesterday I was doing it and as I was going through the whole, process.

Speaker 1:

Process. I mean, it's a long, two hour process that I was doing and it came down to one word, and the one word in order for me to produce more abundance in my life came down to one word, and the one word was validity, validity.

Speaker 2:

Validation.

Speaker 1:

Valid, validity, validation, and as soon as I found validity, then abundance would pour into my life. And as soon as Jason said that, I'm telling you, my mouth dropped because it is such a rare word for both of us.

Speaker 2:

We don't use that word ever, right? I don't remember the last time I've used that word. And it just felt a little too coincidental for both of us to come up with that word at a day apart, less than a day apart, probably, yes, and 24 hours apart, when I literally cannot remember the last time I've ever use that word. And so again it fell to me like Okay me go back through all the podcast and there are 185 or 186 podcast and I don't think we've ever use the word validity or validity or derivative of the word.

Speaker 1:

And in fact when I wrote it after I did this two hour process, I even wrote notes out to the side, like you know, maybe I need to do some coaching around this because in order I mean, that's kind of an odd word to come up with- you know?

Speaker 2:

yeah, because validation is almost one of those words from outside right that feels.

Speaker 1:

That feels like I'm seeking something that is and we work that I should already have.

Speaker 2:

We work from inside, exactly so, but and we and one of the things around this is is we know.

Speaker 2:

I know is. We do know, but, and we and one of the things is also, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves and sometimes to relieve that pressure, we go to the people that we know and we trust. And we hope that the people that we know, we trust, know us well enough and know what we've done and know what we, what steps we've taken, like they watched us take the staircase up yes and say yes you have reached this next level of the staircase, and that's why it's important to have a coach that says, hey, I've watched you make this progress.

Speaker 2:

If you can't see the progress you've made, let me. Let me show you the progress you've made. And that's like one of the things that I do with my clients is we do that, that baseline, and say, hey, remember where you were, let me validate you today because this is where you were. And just let's remember that, because this is where you are today and it's amazing and that's why it's important to what you're really saying is have a measuring stick yes and when we look back to how far we've come I mean sometimes when you look forward to where you want to go the mountain can seem so daunting.

Speaker 1:

And when you look at the score of the goal that you're trying, I mean, I played basketball for so many years and so you know a lot of times I am wanting results. I want to look at the scoreboard.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I want to say yes, I want.

Speaker 1:

I want to know okay, I'm making progress because I'm scoring baskets but it's still 99 to 99. But when you're climbing Mount Everest, there's not a scoreboard, so you have to realize okay, wait a minute.

Speaker 2:

There's different measuring sticks and the measuring stick is that I'm showing up every day yeah, and it was just beautiful having someone that was walking down like people that we didn't even know, and that's that's another thing. So there's there's tremendous validation when there's people that you're impacting and you don't even know, and I would submit that when we go through life every single day, we are impacting people that we have no idea that we're impacting, and everyone is impacting someone they have no idea they're impacting, and just know in your heart that you're impacting somebody that you have no idea you're impacting and just rest easy in that at night.

Speaker 1:

I guess what we're really trying to say because we've gone a little long and I'm going to try to wrap this up in a nice little succinct button Is that I meditate every single morning and I feel like I make contact with this infinite intelligence, with something that is bigger.

Speaker 1:

It's an energy that is Bigger and better than anything I could possibly imagine, and sometimes that's hard to articulate and sometimes that is hard to put into words, and every now and then we just Need proof Because we are operating, sometimes on pure faith, when we don't have, when we don't have what I was talking about earlier, the scoreboard and we're showing up every single day and we know in our hearts yeah, we're making progress because we're doing the work, we're doing the work, we're doing the work and we know, we know that we just keep going, we just keep going, we're getting better, we're getting better you're putting the thoughts out there, the right thoughts out there, you're feeling it, you're putting the right energy out there and you know that it's coming at you and some and we're operating on faith.

Speaker 1:

Like our time is coming, our, our, the reward, the nugget, is right around the corner stop three, it's here it's here, it's here, it's here, and every now and then you just have to stop and say it's here, I'm in it, it's here and, like jason said, you have to expect it and you have to seek it. You have to find it, be in it and be in it. Yeah, I love it. We're all living lucky synchronicities. They're all around us. We just have to recognize them and believe it. That that's what it is amen validity.

Speaker 1:

Who would have thought love it. Have a good day, guys. Talk to you later. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.